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The former soap star went on to say: “I don’t mean to be so sentimental but I am sentimental, hideously sentimental, because it was my wedding anniversary three days ago actually.”

Later on in a candid piece to camera on the BBC show, Amanda said: “I think I did lead a secret life. A life which I call an 'edited life' because if you are with a group of people who you know are going to be judgemental, what you tend to do is edit what you say the entire time.

“So you’d say, ‘We went to - not she,’ you would edit the gender out of it and edit what you were saying. Since then to now, it’s a different world altogether.”

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Amanda Barrie opens up about her sexuality on The Real Marigold Hotel

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Amanda Barrie talks about her wife Hilary Bonner on The Real Marigold Hotel

I think I did lead a secret life

Amanda Barrie

Amanda, whose credits include Carry On films and Coronation Street, came out at bisexual in her 2003 autobiography It's Not a Rehearsal.

She was previously in a relationship with actress Heather Chasen and was married to theatre director Robin Hunter.

In 2012, Amanda tied the knot with her long-term partner and writer Hilary, who she had been with for a decade before their nuptials.

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Real Marigold Hotel star Amanda Barrie

Wed, February 15, 2017

The Real Marigold Hotel's Amanda Barrie is now most famous for playing Coronation Street's Alma, however back in the 1960s the story was very different.